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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 23, 2019

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Announce $37.6 Million for Mississippi Head Start Programs

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced the award of $37.6 million in federal grant funding for Head Start programs in Mississippi, including $30.3 million in new funding for Early Head Start programs in Benton, Marshall, DeSoto, Noxubee, Grenada, Lowndes, and Tunica counties. “The expansion of Early Head Start in these…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 23, 2019

SALTER: The late Ed Perry was a jovial, intensely loyal force of nature in the Mississippi House

By: Sid Salter State Rep. Felix Edwin “Stump” Perry was one of the most effective legislators in the long history of the Mississippi House, but it was the style with which Ed carried out his legislative duties that made Ed’s passing last week at age 76 statewide news. Perry’s legislative pedigree is legendary. He was…